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Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Lucy and Zach set up a yoga studio in the basement of their apartment building using potted plants from the lobby, door mats taken from various neighbors, and their very limited knowledge of yoga, on a day when snooty Mrs. Blankenship is giving her book club a tour.
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Esmae lives with her grandparents on the uppermost floor of the topmost best building. It's her birthday. Mimi and Pipo gave her a beautiful guitar. But they didn't plan a birthday party...With the help of her cat, El Toro, and a lot of help from her neighbors in the topmost best building, the irrepressible Esmae gets the birthday party of her dreams"--
Author
Series
The paranormalists volume 1
Formats
Description
When popular, pretty classmate asks best friends Jinx and Jackson, high school sophomores, to investigate a haunting at her father's apartment, Jackson is sympathetic and convinces Jinx to trust him, despite her skepticism about Emily's true intentions.
24) Paris hangover
Author
Formats
Description
A glamorous fish-out-of-water first novel, Paris Hangover stars Klein, a just-escaped New Yorker with trunk-fulls of fabulous footwear but without the significant relationship, she'd really expected and longed to have by now, in her mid-thirties. Fleeing a live-in lover and their sleek Tribeca triplex as well as a career in fashion, Klein stars over in Paris-in a tiny walk-up in the 6th that she had to lie (in broken Franglais) and write a bad check...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 7
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
26) Other birds
Author
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won't let you go. Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits-a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horeshoe and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
As young rabbit siblings excitedly share the news that rats have moved into their building, worried neighbors inform them that rats are dirty, thieving, and destructive--but are they?
28) Sleep tight
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A doorman who hates anyone who is happy, turns one of the building's resident's life into a nightmare.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 13
Pub. Date
2019
Formats
Description
Summer has come to Scotland Street. The long days have prompted its denizens to engage in flights of fancy. Some, like the Duke of Johannesburg's plan to create a microlite seaplane, are literal flights, and some, like the vain Bruce Anderson's idea of settling down with one of his many admirers, are more metaphorical. With the domineering Irene off pursuing academic challenges, Stuart and Bertie are free to indulge in summer fun. Stuart reconnects...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
Eight interconnected stories follow the tenants in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and out of each other's lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 4
Publisher
Recorded Books ; Audio Editions
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
11 CDs (14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The focus is squarely on precocious six-year-old Bertie this time, as the young lad with the overbearing mother learns to speak Italian, play the saxophone, and do yoga.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
243 pages : 22 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
603 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a long journey.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 12
Publisher
Anchor
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
247 pages
Description
"The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romanticand professional life that will follow. Meanwhile, Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, attracts the attention of the police after a misunderstanding at the local bookstore. Whether caused by small...
Author
Description
"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These...
Author
Series
The apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
39) Noisy night
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
"A clever picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises"--
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